ANIMISM, MAGIC, AND THE DIVINE KING
Book Details + Condition: First edition from 1930. By Geza Roheim. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (London). 390 pages. Contents include: Animism and the Other World; Sympathetic Magic; Moment of Death and the Soul; Osiris and other Mortals; Passage of the Dead; Psychology of Magic; Black Art; Love Magic; The Medicine Man and the Art of Healing; Magic Wand and Medicine Pipe; Mana; Holy Ghost; Disease and the Art of Healing; Tammuz and the King; Adonis and other Lords; Attis and Midas; Pharaoh and other African kings; Cecrops and other Serpents; and much more. Tight binding; bumped and rubbed corners; rubbed spine and board edges; some fading to red boards and spine; text is clean and unmarked save age-toning and light periodic foxing.
